When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
THUCYDIDESThose who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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Knowledge without understanding is useless.
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For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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You shouldn’t feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven’t tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
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It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
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I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
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The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
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The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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